| Show A combat with and capture of a wild cat A few days since a young V lad aon bon of mr charles lambert of this city while riding over the prairie west of jordan came in contact with a I 1 irge wild cat or california tiger as they are frea frequently bently called in tb B s country which imme lately showed 1 fight 12 and attacked a large do dog which was wab with the boy and was in a fair way to use him up when the lad who is an adept with a lariat lariat and had one with him lut was wab not dot armed with gun pistol or knife fe succeeded lu in taking a hitch on the ferocious baat but not around his hig neck the rope at the same time pasing pa sing sing bing around a sage sae sa b e bubb so BO that in drabin drawing it up in the usual way the animal which still beij beld h els eis fast to the dog 0 became fastened so somewhat to tot the hobush bobush bush the boy then got down from froin his horse and ap applied lillea the beel teel of one of his heavy boots to the wild cats cata head until it if released its hod upon the dog but subsequently got Zen cel disentangled tangled fr from om the bush tad lad and made lad sprang into the saddle and started off under whip and spur the w id beast making t efforts to seize him jairl jumping ing higher bagher 0 than the horse horge several times just na ai issing sa in him as they were movi moving dg swiftly ov ivr r the prairie the horse gradually gaining gainin ground and the wild cat falin fillin behind till tilt the lariat brought him up and he was dragged by it about of a mile when the boy supposing him dead dad liel holdup dup his haree on however how evert grera he found that tbt animal wab was yet alive and having no other 9 A e f it mh f means ans 0 ot o dispatching lil ill him in q ok ofle one ne odthe ohe stirrups tro fro orom from in his saddie saddle sa dale dulc andreat and ani beat him therewith I 1 till life became extinct the animal was of the largest size the bo body dy being over three feet in length and itna wal wai w i taller than a greyhound frow from the be loys boys statement I 1 it fough t most des desperately erite lr and it was certainly lucky for the iau lay that it dd aoi noi get hold 0 of him for it it had the boy net not have been abie able to have bave disengaged aimse from its gras grasp and would have been ki killed I 1 e that kind of carnivorous animals and aud and other ferocious lid iid wild ild beasts inc ling Wing oil e have been lurkin lurking about in th the e valley vailey s lil iti in greater numbers the past winter than usua asua usual f the v vast ast amount of 0 enoy that has fallen failed falleson fal fai lenon ledon orl aix oix r the mounta ns where such beasts make their laira and principally inhabit ther they they liate idae 4 been unusually tn usually unusually I 1 I 1 y ravenous apa J to sheep lambs and young oung domestic anit anneals cais cals generally ahen found unprotected on the range range while pro aling fling about in a soa sea ca ch ot 0 food and in more than thai one ong ins instance tan c a have a animals nuna Is belonging to the felin belins t species made assaults upon persons with whom they have come in in co contact intact unawares but so far as known no one has been hurt a though several ail alj as aa in the he case above stated have had hati verr very ver yer at narrow q s |
